Final stage work in Tsuruoka
· Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan

Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (PD-US-not renewed). · file Kōchi's appearance in a stage production in Tsuruoka was her final professional work, shortly before her cancer diagnosis. The source establishes 1997 as the year through its reference to the preceding December before January 1998; the specific venue is not identified.